mona Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 ‘Yellowstone is RUMBLING again!’ YELLOWSTONE is showing signs of activity once more as earthquakes beneath the potentially catastrophic volcano continue to strike. By SEAN MARTIN PUBLISHED: 00:01, Tue, Mar 13, 2018 | UPDATED: 07:06, Tue, Mar 13, 2018 View of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. In the last week, there have been four tremors in and around the Yellowstone volcano. Minor earthquakes occur in the Yellowstone area around 50 times a week. The most recent quake came on March 11 when a small 1.5 tremor took place beneath the surface. The strongest one, a 1.8 magnitude earthquake, came just hours before this, and people are concerned that Yellowstone could be about to blow. Yellowstone will get us all’ Fears deadly volcano will blow as earthquakes RUMBLE Yellowstone volcano: Earthquakes strike under supervolcano Worried social media users took to Twitter to voice their fears. One person wrote on Twitter: “Pray to Yellowstone caldera. We can end it all.” Joey Brooklyn said: “Yellowstone is rumbling again”. RyGuy said on the social media site: “Yellowstone’s gonna blow up and get us all”. Yellowstone will erupt oneday Meteorologist Tom Skilling moved to calm any nerves, and said this is actually an unusually quiet week for the supervolcano. He wrote on the WGN news website: “Minor earthquakes occur in the Yellowstone area 50 or more times per week, but a major eruption is not expected in the foreseeable future.” The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 700,000 years ago but experts say it should blow every one million years or so. If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable. The large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a “nuclear winter”. The massive eruption could be a staggering 6,000 times as powerful as the one from Washington’s Mount St Helens in 1980 which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces. If the volcano explodes, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight. SOURCE MORE ON THE SUBJECT MATTER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mona Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 Yellowstone super volcano in pictures The volcano at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana sits atop a huge reserve of magma and last erupted 640,000 years ago Belgian Pool, hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park The Sunset Lake hot spring at Yellowstone National Park Steam erupts from Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park The Morning Glory pool at Yellowsone National Park Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park Steam billows from the Upper Geyser Basin at Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park An aerial view of the Morning Glory pool at Yellowstone National Park The Grand Prismatic Basin at Yellowstone National Park Steam erupts from Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park The Beauty Pool at Yellowstone National Park The Orange Spring Mound at Yellowstone National Park The Cliff Geyser along the Iron Creek in the Black Sand Basin is seen in Yellowstone National Park Steam erupts from Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park People visit the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park Hot springs in the winter at Yellowstone National Park video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasbridge Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 When it blows, it is really going to screw up all of those climate change computer models... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee.pee Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Thanks @mona to bring us a lots of so beautifull pictures This yellowstone Park is one of the part of the world where I would like to go someday ... but not sure I could go everywhere I want ... so I'm dreaming in front of my screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoclock Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Beautiful pictures. 2 hours ago, rasbridge said: When it blows, it is really going to screw up all of those climate change computer models... Look at the bright side, it will also add more data to climate change modelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mona Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 3 hours ago, rasbridge said: When it blows, it is really going to screw up all of those climate change computer models... 1 hour ago, sixoclock said: (...) Look at the bright side, it will also add more data to climate change modelling. ‘’The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 700,000 years ago but experts say it should blow every one million years or so.’" Means that despite Yellowstone volcano's rumbling and eartquake swarms - we still have like 300,000 (hopefully) peaceful years ahead of us. Thank goodness ! BTW Interesting articles : HERE & HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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